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Movie Weekend in Canada: Part II, the Offbeat

Seymour: An Introduction – Something a bit different than the usual, a musical documentary. This film is all about the life of pianist Seymour Bernstein, who gives up a performing careet to become a music teacher. This documentary shows what Seymour has done on his personal journey of artistic exploration and is an inspiring tale of how he lived his life.

Hard to be a God – A Russian science fiction film where a team of scientists travels to a  planet called Arkanar, which lives a medieval lifestyle and suffers under a read-and-write ban. The scientists must do their work confidentially without planet leaders finding out, and one of the scientists gets mistaken for a God from the future, making him unsure of what to do.

Marinoni: The Fire in the Frame – Another documentary film, this one about a cyclist. It follows the life of Giuseppe Marinoni, who is a legendary bicycle racer as well as a bicycle builder.

White God – A Hungarian film, with the message that  dogs should be treated better. When a new regulation against mixed breeds in introduced to the city, many owners start dumping their dogs. One girl named Lili doesn’t want to give up her dog Hagen as she grew up with him, but her father lets the dog go free eventually. Hagen looks for his owner and tries to live on his own, but the homeless dog life doesn’t work out for him. He eventually joins a gang of stray dogs, only to get captured and imprisoned in a pound. All the dogs make an escape plan and intend to get revenge on mankind, and it may be up to Lili to save the city from being slaughtered by mistreated dogs.

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